[Fot] Sputtering TR question

[Bob Bownes -Seiri]

Now if your mix is adjustable and you can dump a bunch of O2 right in front of
your own intake...:)



On May 31, 2011, at 15:34, Bill Babcock <billb at bnj.com> wrote:

> Great story, highly unlikely. You'd need a huge volume to do anything in an
> unconstrained, turbulent space like that.
>
> On May 31, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Don Elliott wrote:
>
>> Ken Gillanders told me a racing story many years ago from the late 1950s.
> Maybe it applies here.
>>
>> It seems that a racing Mini had two fire extinguisher bottles.  One bottle
> was filled with the approved fire extinguisher inside.  The other was
filled
> with pure nitrogen and the driver would flick a switch that released a
sudden
> huge mass of nitrogen out through small holes in a copper pipe hidden under
> the rear bumper.  Every corner - just like you Duncan - the cars following
> would seem to suffer fuel starvation problems and by the time the cars
> following got un-spluttered again, the Mini was far gone.
>>
>> You need oxygen in the air/fuel mixture - not pure nitrogen and fuel.
>>
>> Leave it up to Ken to tell a great story !
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "MadMarx" <tr4racing at googlemail.com>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Fot] Sputtering TR question
>>
>>
>>> It seems to me a classic SU dirt problem.
>>> Debris is somewhere in float chamber and blocking from time to time the
>>> needle jet.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Chris
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